How to Use polarization in a Sentence

polarization

noun
  • The events of the last few days have only added to the sense of polarization in Pakistani society.
    Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2023
  • For me, there’s a polarization, which always had a sense of theater.
    Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • For more on the poll’s findings on polarization, views of the future, and top concerns, check out this story.
    Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • But this time a record number of seats – more than 300 – produced a three-way run-off, in a measure of France’s polarization.
    Christian Edwards, CNN, 7 July 2024
  • The key turned out to be combining that method with observing the polarization of these fields.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Most of all, there’s a sense of Houser’s own wide-eyed dismay at the polarization of talk radio and cable news.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The polarization of cultures is most evident within small and mid-cap PE firms, where women thrive 50% of the time.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 June 2024
  • But like much of the West, the country may be entering a new era of polarization and more bitter politics.
    Catarina Fernandes Martins, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • In his essay, Bill Gates wrote that polarization in the United States makes battling global crises tougher.
    Glenn Gamboa, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
  • The sensor resistance tells us how much power the field contains, and the power tells us its polarization.
    Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Gulsen apologized for the offense the joke caused but said her comments were seized on by those wanting to deepen polarization in the country.
    Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Choosing to self-segregate opens the door open to polarization.
    Helen Lee Bouygues, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The lack of transparency and the way in which the government is flaunting its arrests is giving rise to further polarization.
    Caterina Morbiato, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2022
  • That polarization has led people to shift their support for the court based on their perceptions of the court’s partisan leanings.
    Jessica A. Schoenherr, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Paula Suárez, 29, a doctor and left-wing candidate for local office in Barcelona with the Sumar coalition, said the polarization in the country was entrenched.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 22 July 2023
  • In a time of political polarization and war, are some things off-limits?
    George Gurley, New York Times, 21 June 2024
  • The goal was to use data on the polarization of light around a black hole that was captured using the EHT to determine if a black hole was a traversable wormhole or not.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Researchers say the result of this growing polarization is clear: The nation’s overall health profile is going from bad to worse.
    Akilah Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Coming up, after some extreme weather across the country, a closer look at the roots of polarization over climate change.
    ABC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • For a Brit, Wolf has a respectable grasp of the arc of modern American politics and the source of the polarization and dysfunction that now grip its capital.
    Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Francis’s nearly 10 years as pope have been defined by opposition and deepened polarization — not just with rank-and-file Catholics, but with those in the highest ranks of the church.
    Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Straight ticket voting was common in the U.S. during the 1960s, but more states are doing away with it even as partisan polarization is near all-time highs.
    al, 9 Oct. 2022
  • This polarization has in some ways overshadowed the excitement of the prospect of electing the country’s first female leader.
    Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 May 2024
  • This intense polarization — Awami League versus everyone else — is part of the reason for the protests.
    Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 5 Aug. 2024
  • As political polarization worsened, the group convinced donors to give them money to help bridge the divide.
    James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
  • The solution to racial polarization is a return to the founding principles of our nation.
    Larry P. Arnn, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2022
  • The mayor said he was frustrated with the direction of the country and blamed Republicans and Democrats for the nation’s polarization.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Young people are also stressed by political polarization, distrust in the media and two wars raging abroad, in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip.
    Carol Bishop Mills, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The Chinese posts didn’t support one party or the other but seemed intent on stirring up polarization.
    David Klepper, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Recent polling underscores the results of the country's growing polarization as well as Trump's years-long election denialism regarding the results of the 2020 election.
    Russell Contreras, Axios, 15 Sep. 2024

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